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Encyclopedia > Francesco da Milano

Francesco da Milano (1497-1543) was a medieval Italian lutist virtuoso and composer. Was borned in Monza, close to Milan; was rather popular during his life; wrote several books of music for lute. Some of his works are still very famous and are frequently performed.


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In arranging vocal music, he applied brilliant trills, turns and runs to the model to produce a thoroughly idiomatic lute piece.
Francesco was buried at the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Milan, which was destroyed in the second half of the eighteenth-century to make way for the construction of the La Scala Opera House.
Among his disciples was Giovanni Maria da Crema.
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